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In message <1CC8ECC2FE7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, D.LANCASTER@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes >> >Actually I perform 4'33" every year with my first year students! It may >> >not be everyone's cup of tea but at least it makes them ask the question >> >for themselves: 'is this music and if not, why not?' Sometimes it >> >works really well!!! ( And isn't it interesting that Eric Ball borrowed >> >small sections of it to use in Resurgam...). >> >> This is a quite disgraceful slur. How could Ball have plagiarised Cage's >> work when Resurgam was written in 1950, and 4'33" written in 1952? Answer >> that. Actually, I'm thinking of arranging 4'33" for band...but I'd like to make it a test piece, so I'm renaming it 14'52" Best wishes, Tim -- Tim Morgan, Bass Trombone, Woolley Pritchard Sovereign Brass. http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/sov/sov.htm -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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